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What do we think? I mean she's clearly more entitled to go all 'H-Town' than most, but it seems a bit bandwagon-y really as it's clearly a massive trend at the moment, and the second half of this isn't particularly inspiring so just ends up sounding like some A$AP off cut.

Can't be bothered to have a little cry about all the sexism stuff, it's definitely a bit jarring hearing her being all aggressive though.

Also quite funny to hear her go on about not wanting to be known just as Jay Z's wife when she's gone to the producer of his biggest hit in years for her comeback single.

between calling her comeback track Bow Down, the O2 ad for the Mrs Carter Tour and Jay's risible guest spot on Suit & Tie, I'm inclined to believe that household is beginning to believe its own hype far, far too much

...just sounds like something she was dicking around with, that someone suggested they just put out. Can't imagine it'll be a characteristic-marker for whatever comes next. Pretty terrible given the girl's pedigree.

And just to be a pissy middle-class liberal for a second - I've got a 6-year-old daughter who loves Single Ladies and Run The World, and I'm not ecstatic about the prospect of her going round singing 'Bow down bitches'. A mis-step in so many ways.

but it doesn't make much sense, Bey's whole thing is about resisting being objectified and defined by marriage, they're a line in this song where she says 'Calm down, I'm not just his little wife', so are you saying said 6-year old girl SHOULD be thinking about being objectified and defined by marriage?

But at least it's quite easy to divorce 'Single Ladies' from an actual message, and I'm not one to blame supposed 'role models' for imposing some sort of moral code on my daughter. At the moment she's too young to take any sort of message from a song on board, but if she was to grow up being objectified and identified by marriage then that would be our failing and not Beyonce's.

The prospect of her singing 'Bow down, bitches!' is a lot more immediate though! And don't worry I didn't really take it as a snarky attack. I'm also assuming that being a pissy middle-class liberal doesn't put me in a minority on this site?

And it goes beyond promoting marriage. It can only stem from the presumption that women passively await a proposal, completely absent from the decision of when or whether or not to get married, and that women are all yearning for the day that their relationships are made meaningful by a proposal.

"If you liked it then you should have put a ring on it" can essentially have been paraphrased as "you did not take the initiative as the man in the relationship, and had you bothered to propose, I would probably have stuck around, ignored the fact that an engagement ring makes no fundamental difference to our relationship, and we would both be happy".

I can see that "bow down bitches" is more likely to crop up at parents evening, however.

And for my second concession: I still think Single Ladies is a monster jam.